That evening in Mexico City, hundreds of people walked over to Avenida Reforma to sit on the steps of the monument known as El Ángel to clear their heads, take deep breaths of the fresher evening air, and share their thoughts.
They would have seen me walking to the Avenida Arequipa to catch the bus home.
Another good option, especially after dark, is to cross Avenida Juárez to the Sears department store.
Exit the plaza to the north and follow Avenida Maria Cristina to La Lonja de la Seda (14) on Plaza del Mercado (00 34 96 352 5478; 10and2pm and 4.30-8.30pm toeSaturdaySaturday, 10am-3pm Sunday; €3 entry).
"Power has shifted from one side of Avenida Arce to the other," said Fernando Molina, a local newspaper columnist, referring to the street in La Paz where the Brazilian ambassador's residence sits opposite the towering embassy of the United States.
ONLY around 4,000 people turned up on São Paulo's Avenida Paulista to celebrate the re-election of Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on October 29th.
Once Vasquez fills his 10,000-litre tanker, it is then driven several hundred metres up the slopes of Avenida Miravalle to one of the city's poorest and most feared neighbourhoods.
Around 1,000 protesters marched along Sao Paulo's Avenida Paulista to demonstrate against the FIFA World Cup.
Clutching a photo of the deceased — a middle-aged man with brown skin and a moustache whom mourners referred to only as "El Blanco" — the woman walked directly behind the hearse, an ostentatious black-and-chrome stretch Hummer, down Avenida Madero to the local cemetery of Ocotlan, Jalisco.
We walk back to Avenida Atlantica, then take another right on to Rua Rodolfo Dantas, next to the gleaming white Copacabana Palace Hotel, where we pass Mud Bug (00 55 21 2235 6847; mudbug.com.br).
